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SMyLe Seminar with Prof. Dr. Julia Esser-von Bieren and Dr. Juan Manuel Villar-Vesga

May 28 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Macrophages in Type 2 – Immunity From Effector Functions to Immune Regulation
Prof. Dr. Julia Esser-von Bieren (Department of Immunobiology University of Lausanne)

Julia Esser-von Bieren received her PhD in Medical Sciences in 2011 from the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden), where she started to work on lipid mediators (eicosanoids) in the context of allergy and inflammation. During her postdoc at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne with Prof. Nicola Harris (2011-2014) Julia investigated mechanisms of macrophage-mediated immunity against helminth parasites. In 2015, she joined the Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM) at the Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich as a junior group leader. From 2018-2025, Julia led the Helmholtz Young Investigator group “Innate Immunomodulation“ at Helmholtz Munich. In 2022 Julia was recruited as an Associate Professor in Infection and Immuneregulation in the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). 

Monocyte-derived macrophages drive oxidative damage in neuroinflammation
Dr. Juan Manuel Villar-Vesga (Department of Systems Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science)

Juan Manuel Villar-Vesga completed his undergraduate training in Colombia at the Universidad de Antioquia before moving to Zurich to pursue his PhD at the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich. Working in the lab of Sarah Mundt, his doctoral research focused on the role of myeloid cells in neuroinflammation. Having completed his PhD, Juan has now joined the lab of Prof. Ido Amit at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, one of the world’s leading groups in single-cell genomics and systems immunology.

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Join us for this exciting talk with Prof. Dr. Julia Esser-von Bieren and Dr. Juan Manuel Villar-Vesga via Zoom. This seminar is fully remote – the next seminar in June will be in person again (including an apero, of course!)

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